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When a man says he loves a woman, he means it the same way he loves a fancy sportscar or enjoying a fine craft beer. He means he thinks you’re the best thing for him to enjoy of all the options he’s seen so far. He sees you as a top tier product for consumption, a trophy to display on his arm rather than a shelf.

He sees you and thinks you would make a good baby factory for him to use, and a good house servant to take care of him.

He views dating as a job interview for marriage because he sees you as working for him like an employee who exists to provide him with anything and everything he asks for, including your body and your soul.

He doesn’t love women the way we love men, or the way we love each other.

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Slavic witchcraft

Slavic folklore has plenty of stories about witches. According to the tradition, witches were able to heal people with herbs and magic, however, most of them were dangerous and malignant. Witches could be young women or old hags – like the phases of the moon, new moon, waning and waxing moon, and full moon; like the three archetypes of women: the young woman, the mature woman, and the crone. It is interesting to see how people of the Dark Ages feared the power of womanhood and female sexuality. We have this fear in modern day horror films, and they still work with the same symbolism.

Slavic witches, in general, had a bad reputation. They were haunting the wilderness at night, and lost travelers could see them dancing in the air in hailstorms. Witches were wandering in marshlands and moors, and they had some distinctive, strange, shimmering glow around them; these lights lured lost men – wood-cutters or hunters – right into the marsh, where, at last, the witch could drown them. The souls of these men have never found rest; they were lost forever. Witches could be seen near crossroads at midnight. They were able to bring down hailstorms in order to damage their enemies’ property. They were associated with black cats and toads.

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from Talking Heads No. 64

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How is your transition going?

Thank you for asking. Please bear with me as I attempt to explain, as this is a fairly complicated matter.If I’m honest, it’s a bit of a mixed bag right now. I’m a little over 2 months into my transition, so as you can probably imagine there is a lot happening at once. I’ll start by saying that things are moving along much quicker than my doctor (or I) anticipated, which is amazing. I’m only on the lowest dose of T they can give me, but the onset of changes has been swift. 

Starting with the negatives, I’m full blown into this strange experience that is combined menopause and puberty. While I feel physically well most days, the side effects that sometimes come with this have been hitting me really hard. For example, achieving consistent sleep has become an issue — some nights I’m lucky to get 2 hours. I’ve been missing a lot of work lately because the exhaustion and the hot flashes get so bad that I simply can’t function. When this subsides I’m finding myself in stuck bed with full-body growing pains sleeping upwards of 16 hours at a clip for a few days. Fortunately, my job has been very gracious and have granted me FMLA so I can focus on my health without losing pay.

Despite this, I really couldn’t be happier. I’m waking up to new changes every day, and that in itself is motivating me to keep going. At this point, I’m starting to see my true self taking form and the feeling is indescribable. I’m transitioning “gracefully”, and I no longer have the fear of uncertainty when it comes to how I will one day look. I was seriously worried, especially because I work closely with the public in a tiny town of conservative elderly people….but the amount of love and positive feedback I’ve been receiving as completely negated that. 

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Domestic abuse of trans people

I found a pamphlet from the Greater London Domestic Violence Project that talks about experiencing domestic abuse as a trans person. It talks about some things that are specific to trans people’s experience of domestic abuse. It also has a section about experiencing domestic abuse as a trans minor. 

It’s apparently from 2009, so there’s a possibility that not all the help resources listed at the end are still active. 

Nevertheless, I think this is a good resource that every trans person should check out!

Here’s the link to the PDF. (Obviously, CW for mentions of many different kinds of domestic abuse.) 

- Emil

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In occulta afrodisia . 2014 oil on wood . Esposto alla mostra eterogenesi della forma a cura di alberto mattia martini Palazzo platamone . Catania

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do you ever look at someone and think ‘man, what a work of art’

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There’s a tide of thinkpieces talking about how ‘hard’ it is to be a Trump supporter or just a general conservative on college campuses.

Truth be told, in light of the protests surrounding Milo Yiannopoulos and in comments by a Trump-voter grad student, I’d be a lot more sympathetic if the conservative student movement wasn’t willingly aligning itself with people like Yiannopoulos, Shapiro, among others, and of course Trump.

Like, if this is the best the conservative student movement can bring to the table, then ‘ideological diversity’ ain’t worth a pitcher of warm spit.

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作画5日目。 Marie Joseph Sanson

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